*soothing breaths*

And now I'm skipping a completely different class because I'm still extremely wound up from last night, and I'm pretty sure that I can't stand sitting through an hour of Natural Disasters right now, even though it's river flooding. And it's a lecture; I know how this class is graded, I know that exactly what the prof says is up online and I can pull the lecture notes, and I know that the prof doesn't take attendance. If I go, I'm going to go out of my mind sitting there, especially since I haven't printed out the lecture notes.

Now I just have to figure out whether it's going to calm me down more to write something, to read something, or to knit something. (Actually, the last time I was this wound up I showed up at my friend Lesley's door wild-eyed and went, "I either have to do something or destroy something and there's nothing I can destroy. You want to go somewhere?" and we went to Borders.) What I should probably do is go take one of the books I got just because they tend to calm me down bunches (Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, Patricia C. Wrede) and go eat something. Instead what I'm doing is sitting in my dark dorm eating strawberries out of the carton and looking at SGA fanart.

right, now would be a good time for me to upload my cair paravel icon

Actually, you know what really calms me down, writing-wise? World-building. Some of my favorite parts of writing in the Golden Age are just descriptions -- the festival in These Last Golden Days of Summer, the marinas and the naval battle in The White City, Susan's clothes and the Shifting Market in On a Summer Sunday. It makes me happy.

So, uh, is there anything in Narnia (Golden Age preferably, but anytime else as well, Dust, the Dying Times, the Telmarine Era, the House of Caspian, the Long Winter, the Little Autumn -- that's the era before the White Witch took over, and there are parts of it I'd like to think about more, just in case I ever write "Danse Macabre", the Edmund time travel story) that y'all would like to see described or built up?

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You know, watching my friend completely flip out over the fact she got put in Modular Housing for next year (completely flip out -- she was threatening to transfer just because of the housing she got) has strangely calmed me down.

You know what I want to write? The time Peter lost his virginity about a week into being High King, to a naiad and a dryad, then came back to Cair Paravel completely blissed out and kept walking into walls and doors and things -- or would have, if Cair Paravel hadn't happened to like him enough to move the doors. He did walk into people, though.